To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.